Friday, January 22, 2021

Ideological vs. Existential Christianity

Most fundamentally, there are two kinds of Christianity: ideological Christianity, and existential Christianity. Ideological Christianity is has a greater emphasis on culture; existential Christianity has a greater emphasis on God. Ideologial Christianity has a greater emphasis on human influence; existential Christianity has a greater emphasis on divine influence. All through history, one has seen these two trends. This is to put it far too simply, but a lot of the unrest about Christianity today is about ideological Christianity of one kind or another. I have attended both kinds of seminary, for example Fuller Theological Seminary in the USA, and the Universitäre Theologische Hochschule in Switzerland.

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